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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses
@austerityalters.bsky.social
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life-courses & futures | austerity & crisis | europe | creative oral histories | solidarity infrastructure | anti-poverty | Uni of Manchester | UKRI funded 2021-2029 🍞🌹

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Last week we had our Anti-Poverty Chats for Change, a lunch event bringing together community, policy+uni folk in Manchester. Together we explored how to galvanise A-P change, working collectively+creatively. Here's our winning create plate by Terri Lucas! If you want to know more, get in touch! 🍽🖍
A photograph of a paper plate with colourful annotated drawings. It includes an ear (listening), football pitch (left-field ideas) and a heart (compassion). Photograph of a tablecloth featuring our co-designed Anti-Poverty research framework, a colourful image with 11 values designed into a jigsaw. The image is surrounded by pens, pencils and coffee cups. An accessible version of the framework can be found on our website.
June 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Tomorrow we'll be in Neuchâtel presenting some emerging ideas on young people, migration and housing in the context of austerity. Looking forward to the other talks and generating new ideas 💡
Screenshot of a slide that reads "Young migrants, austerity and housing: How austerity alters lives and futures across Europe. Prof. Sarah Marie Hall, University of Manchester. (Counter) Narratives on Migration in Times of Crisis, Wednesday 11th June 2025". The text is while on a grey background that is an illustrated jigsaw.
June 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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📢✏️As well as publishing the final blog of series two (socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...) we can now share an exciting update about series THREE, which explores 'How austerity alters disabled people’s lives + futures: intersectional understandings in research, policy, + practice'
Austerity and Altered Life-Courses: Call for blogs Series Three – How austerity alters disabled people’s lives and futures: intersectional understandings in research, policy, and practice Do you work at the intersection of disability and austerity? Do you have lived and/or research/policy-based experience of how austerity alters disabled people’s lives? We are curating a blog series which focuses on the ways austerity shapes and changes disabled people’s lives and futures, and we want to hear from you! If you are interested in contributing to our blog series on the topic of austerity and disability, send us a short summary of your blog (200 words max) to austerityalters@manchester.ac.uk by Friday 30th May, with the subject line as ‘Disability and Austerity Blog’. If this date is not accessible for you, but you would still like to submit a summary, please let us know. We approach disability inclusively and broadly. Please see post thread for full text details.
April 15, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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This past year, we've been working closely with 3 ace community partners to co-create anti-poverty strategies in Manchester.
Our framework for how to work together & toolkit for policy-makers are now on our website:
www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...

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February 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Thanks to everyone who has come to visit the exhibition today! We've enjoyed sharing stories of future lives and austerity and listening to people's responses. You can visit the whole exhibition here: www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...
Poster on the wall and tablet on a table both advertising the exhibition Three people stood in a row listening to the exhibition on three tablet screens.
November 6, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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At our symposium this week we launched our Future Lives and Austerity digital exhibition. Ft. oral stories, participatory materials and artistic depictions, you can view the whole (multi-lingual) exhibition here: www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...
Future Lives and Austerity: A Digital Exhibition. Words in the middle surrounded by a colourful jigsaw pattern.
October 18, 2024 at 8:37 AM
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THANK YOU! To everyone who engaged with us/our symposium today. You're all brilliant. Now, we rest and recharge. In solidarity, the AALC team xxx
October 16, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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September 25, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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At our Yorkshire away days, we're collaging and chatting about positive working with researchers in a team. We're calling this activity 'Dear PI...'
Our guide will follow!
September 17, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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📢CfP: "young people, future lives, and austerity" - lightning talks with early career researchers. Calling ECRs, we want to hear about your work at our online symposium on 16th October. Submit a 250-word abstract by 24/09/24 via email. See below for details #AALCSymposium
Young people, future lives, and austerity: ECR Lightning Talks 16th October 2024, 14:00-15:10 (BST) 15:00– 16:10 (CET) On 16th October 2024 the Austerity and Altered Life-Courses team are hosting an online international symposium, on the theme of ‘Future Lives and Austerity’.This is a lightning talk panel, where presenters talk for 5-7 minutes about their research, work, and/or expertise related to the theme of the session, followed by an interactive Q&A and discussion. The panel is designed for ECRs (incl. academic, community, policy, charity, activist) in the field of young people, future lives, and austerity, to present their work. If you are an early career researcher and would like to be part of this lightning talk panel, please send a 250-word abstract to Poppy Budworth, poppy.budworth@manchester.ac.uk, by 24th September 2024 (11:59pm BST). Please include the title of your presentation, your affiliation, and your email address. Pls present in English. Contact Poppy with any qs.
September 4, 2024 at 8:30 PM